Northrop CEO forecasts ‘more consolidation’ for defense sector February 9
Under a new contract, Northrop Grumman will continue to support Defense Support Program satellites over the next decade. (Ken LaRock/U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON ― The drive to rapidly develop defense technologies will spur more industry mergers and acquisition activity over the next two decades, and create new entrants in the realm of cyber and artificial intelligence, Northrop Grumman CEO Kathy Warden said Tuesday. “As a result, I believe the industry will look different in terms of its composition. There’ll be more consolidation,” Warden said in a wide-ranging interview through the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She also foresaw increased government-industry collaboration.
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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Since the 1990s, every U.S. presidential administration has published a Nuclear Posture Review that explains the rationales behind its nuclear strategy, doctrine, and requested forces. The review envisioned and summarized here explicitly elucidates the dilemmas, uncertainties, and tradeoffs that come with current and possible alternative nuclear policies and forces.
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Ever since the election of Bill Clinton in 1992, every U.S. presidential administration has published a Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that explains the rationales behind its nuclear strategy, doctrine, and requested forces. These reviews have helped inform U.S. government personnel, citizens, allies, and adversaries of the country’s intentions and planned capabilities for conducting nuclear deterrence and, if necessary, war. The administration that takes office in January 2021 may or may not conduct a new NPR, but it will assess a
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“This committee has relied on Dr. Hicks’ expertise to shape defense policy and conduct oversight, and I am pleased we are advancing her nomination to serve as deputy secretary of Defense with strong, bipartisan support. This position is critical to national defense, and I hope the full Senate will confirm her as soon as possible, without needless delay.”
Hicks served as a deputy under secretary of Defense during the Obama administration. Before her nomination to be deputy Defense secretary, she led the international security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Biden s historic selection of Hicks comes after the president chose a recently retired general to be Defense secretary.
HASC’s new lead Republican on making Space Force permanent and budget fights to come February 4 Rep. Mike Rogers questions witnesses during a hearing on Capitol Hill on September 17, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by CHIP SOMODEVILLA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) WASHINGTON ― The House Armed Services Committee organized Wednesday with Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., replacing retired Rep. Mac Thornberry as the panel’s ranking member. The day before a wide-ranging interview with Defense News, Rogers, an original proponent of the Space Force, criticized White House press secretary Jen Psaki for punting on a question about whether the newest branch of the military, established by former President Donald Trump, would have a future under President Joe Biden.